cash

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Money in the form of bills or coins; currency.
• noun Liquid assets including bank deposits and marketable securities.
• noun Money paid in currency or by check.
• transitive verb To exchange for or convert into ready money.
• idiom (cash on the barrelhead) Immediate payment.
• noun Any of various Asian coins of small denomination, especially a copper and lead coin with a square hole in its center.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To discard; disband; cashier.
• noun Disbandment.
• To turn into money, or to exchange for money: as, to cash a note or an order.
• To pay money for: as, the paying teller of a bank cashes notes when presented.
• noun A receptacle for money; a money-box.
• noun Money; primarily, ready money; money on hand or at command.
• noun Money in hand; actual money, as distinguished from other property. Synonyms See money.
• noun A prehistoric wooden road, resembling an American plankroad, or corduroy road.
• noun In coalmining, soft shale or bind.
• noun An abbreviation of cashier.
• noun The name given by foreigners to the only coin in use among the Chinese, and called by them tsien (pronounced chen).
• noun The name sometimes given by foreigners to a li (pronounced lē), or thousandth part of a Chinese liang or ounce.
• noun A copper coin used for currency in Madras under the East India Company.
• noun A coin of Pondicherry, having a value of one third of a cent.
• noun A money of account in Sumatra, worth about 3 cents.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
• noun Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.
• noun Immediate or prompt payment in current funds.
• noun (Bookkeeping) an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand.
• noun [Colloq.] in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change.
• noun an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed upon; -- called also bank credit and cash account.
• noun sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.
• noun A Chinese coin.
• transitive verb obsolete To disband.
• transitive verb To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of several low-denomination coins of India or China, especially the Chinese copper coin.
• noun Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
• noun informal Money.
• noun Canada Cash register.
• verb transitive To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
• verb poker slang To obtain a payout from a tournament.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun money in the form of bills or coins
• verb exchange for cash
• noun prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
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